Can Town (The Official Homestuck Thread)

[TPG]

game keys are being sent to backers now

hiveswap releases in an hour and a half, get ready

 

[ArchagentEverlasting]

I think I may have found a thread to call home

 

[TPG]

this is weird but pretty cool i guess

from what i can tell, mspa has been ported over to homestuck.com, with flashes converted to html5 and making homestuck completely mobile-friendly now

i assume this is the product of homestuck being acquired by viz media, so actual professional lads are fixing everything up for a wider appeal and modern look, etc

also every flash has been officially uploaded to youtube, uhh they improved the search function, uhh homestuck in 2018

viz corporate overlords are the absolute madmen

 

[TPG]

nvm this is bad

 

[Nabber]

LOL why,,,

 

[Lin Beifong]

I know, right? They totally got Dave's weapon abstratus wrong.

 

[TPG]

more strange announcements coming through, bolding the big reveals

first of, newspost. couple of people may have seen me freaking out about the apparent purging of hiveswap's development team, what pumpkin games. musicians, programmers, artists and the director were all suddenly looking for work. this seems to be all fine? hiveswap is still in production, with acts 2-4 still on their way, but probably under actual direction from hussie and viz media.

second thing- viz media acquired the homestuck franchise some time ago. this originally seemed like hussie selling out, but what they've done with the new website shows that they are leagues above whatever wpg or hussie himself would do. they're actually responding to feedback, removing pop-up ads, promising to reupload the flash videos in HD, and uploading ryanquest when a fan noticed it hadn't been ported over.

third thing- hussie's new game

this seems to be a smaller side project to hiveswap, written by hussie himself. its a dating sim, basically, and its meant to expand on the characters and setting of the main games. its going to be on steam soon for $0.99, and after that they'll be releasing further dlc characters so you can pick and choose who you want to date

say what you want about this new stuff, but honestly this is the most amount of (good) news we've gotten since homestuck ended

 

[TPG]

happy birthday john, also new game released

 

[TPG]

new volume?

this seems to be a full album by the old music team, with new songs and old ones that never made it into any previous albums

how cool, how nice, how relevant

also the friendsim games are pretty good, my top picks are volumes 1, 3 and 4

 

[Super Mario]

I'm a big Homestuck fan, haven't been following it too closely for a while but I saw this thread and I'm pleasantly surprised by the new stuff you're sharing Mole Knight. Keep it up.

 

[TPG]

so this popped up

http://www.skaianetsystems.com/index.html

looks like some sort of official ARG, current findings:
*gross sbahj comic about sweet bro giving birth
*details about the b2 universe history, including confirmation that obama is jake's descendant (finally)
*10 year countdown ending on 4/13
*a zip file containing several photos of wizards

idk what the co-ords mean lol

Spoiler: all known links apart from the nsfw sbahj one, you can find that yourself you animals

http://www.skaianetsystems.com/
http://skaianetsystems.com/SAMPLES/APOPHIS/
http://skaianetsystems.com/GOVERNMENT_BLACKLIST/ILLICIT_WARES/DARK_WEB_CACHE/
http://skaianetsystems.com/LEGACY/
http://skaianetsystems.com/FORBIDDEN/CURSED_DATA/HISTORY/
https://twitter.com/skaianetsystems

 

[TPG]

blah blah blah co-ords led to a place called little caliente, and this was found

good ARG

 

[TPG]

1 week till epilogue :joeyHype:

not that many specifics have been revealed, apart from that it is an epilogue and that it has vriska. hiveswap will also get some more details then but suddenly everyone stopped caring about hiveswap when homestuck showed its ugly head again

honestly after hussie reaches closure with this i just hope he can find another project he can be excited about without being bogged down by expectations and funding

 

[TPG]

here it is, the prologue of the epilogue

its refreshingly nice actually, glad to see what seems to be a regular schedule from now on. i missed out on the whole update culture so looking forward to what this will end up being

edit: its really good. love the ao3 parody and the quality of writing. havent been this excited for years

 

[Contra(dictory)]

this is hussie's last chance to give john the ending he deserves

 

[TPG]

i just finished everything, both epilogues and postscripts

this is.. honestly really good bros. fixed all the problems i had with mid-late homestuck, turned the ultimate self concept into something interesting, is actually conclusive while still giving a lot of stuff to chew on.

meat was super heavy hitting and candy had the classic hs vibe despite the stakes. or the steaks. whatever theyre both great stories

if i had to recommend a reading order it'd be meat 1-25 -> candy 1-finish -> meat 25-finish

 

[Lin Beifong]

Is the mage outfit in it?

 

[TPG]

nah man the mage outfit was in s collide 3 years ago

 

[ArchagentEverlasting]

The epilogues were alright, still not as good as Act 4 or A5A2, but nothing can really top those. Homestuck's glory days are over, and I just have to accept that, I guess.

 

[Contra(dictory)]

Spoiler

he might have died but at least he got some Car Fuck first

 

[ArchagentEverlasting]

Spoiler

Which death?

 

[TPG]

Spoiler

john's death

 

[ArchagentEverlasting]

My goodness, for some reason I had completely and utterly forgot John was dead. Sad Arch Hours

 

[TPG]

Pesterquest on Steam

Embark on a quest of epic importance in Pesterquest, a grimsical episodic visual novel adventure set in the darkly funny Homestuck / Hiveswap universe, created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie.

store.steampowered.com

damn homestuck is a VN franchise now

 

[ArchagentEverlasting]

I heavily dislike this